Kicking style
Suona is often played as a leading instrument or with gongs and drums, which is suitable for expressing warm and jubilant atmosphere and magnificent scenes, especially for playing bold and exciting tunes and expressing inner thoughts and feelings deeply and delicately. This is a very expressive instrument. Suona can be used for solo, ensemble or accompaniment, and its playing style can be roughly divided into two groups: North and South.
Playing suona in the south of China (including most traditional opera accompaniment) uses the method of circular ventilation and few other playing techniques to modify the melody. Northern folk artists have created many difficult and complicated playing skills, such as sliding sound, spitting sound, air arch sound, air top green, three-string sound, flute sound and so on. , as well as imitating chicken crow, bird singing, vocal singing (commonly known as card cavity) and other special skills, thus greatly developing and improving the expressive force of suona. ?
structure
Suona consists of five parts: whistle, gas tag, invasion, pole and bowl. There are 8 sound holes on the wooden pole, and the upper end of the pole is equipped with a copper invader, which is covered with a whistle made of an air tag and a reed, and the lower end of the pole is equipped with a bowl. ?
Suona is structurally composed of double reed whistle (reed), wick (copper), pole (white wood, mahogany and old mahogany) and copper bowl (trumpet). The size varies with the tune of suona. The higher the tune, the smaller the suona. Except Banda, Baner, Xiao Haidi and Mu Bai, all of them are mahogany, and the professional high-end products are old mahogany and old mahogany.